In WordPress you can grant user access to developers or other users so they can log in to your WordPress dashboard or comment on your posts.

You can enable the following user types:

• Administrator - An administrator has full access to your WordPress dashboard and can do anything you can do within the dashboard. However, an administrator cannot cancel or change your plan, gain access to your payment information, or change your login ID and password. Their access is just to the dashboard itself.
• Editor - An editor can view, edit, publish, and delete any posts or pages, moderate comments, manage categories, tags, and links and upload files and images.
• Author - An author can edit, publish, and delete their own posts and upload files and images.
• Contributor - A contributor can edit their own posts but cannot publish them. When a contributor creates a post, it will need to be submitted to an administrator for review. Once a contributor’s post is approved by an administrator and published, it can no longer be edited by the contributor. A contributor cannot upload files and images.
• Subscriber - Subscribers only have the ability to leave comments. If you selected Users must be registered and logged in to comment in your Comment Settings, they will be given the subscriber role once they have created an account.

Jump to:

• Add a user
• Delete a user

Add a user

1. Sign in to your WordPress dashboard.
2. Mouse over Users then select Add New.
   
3. On the Add New User page:
   • Username (required) - This is what the user will use to sign in with. Note: Usernames cannot be changed.
   • Email (required) - The user's email address. This must be unique for each user.
   • First Name - The user's first name.
   • Last Name - The user's last name.
   • Website - The user's website URL.
   • Password - Create the user's password. Note: When creating the user's password, WordPress will let you know if the password is Very Weak, Weak, Medium, or Strong. If it's considered Very Weak or Weak, a checkbox will appear to Confirm use of weak password. To create a strong password, click the Generate password button. 
   • Send User Notification - Send the user an email regarding their access.
   • Role - Select a role for the user.
   
4. Click the Add New User button.
   

Delete a user

1. Sign in to your WordPress dashboard.
2. Mouse over Users then select All Users.
   
3. On the Users page, mouse over the user you wish to delete then click the Delete link.
   
4. On the Delete Users page, confirm you wish to delete the user by clicking the Confirm Deletion button.
   

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